Becoming English, and Objecting
Introduced| English | Meaning |
|---|---|
| Anglicization/ˌæŋɡlɪsaɪˈzeɪʃn/ | The adoption or imposition of English language, customs or institutions. |
Pluralism, then two intellectual movements
- The presence of different European religious and ethnic groups contributed to a significant degree of pluralism and intellectual exchange, which were later enhanced by the first Great Awakening and the spread of European Enlightenment ideas.
- The CED gives a base — pluralism from composition — and then two things that enhanced it.
- So the Great Awakening and the Enlightenment are described as amplifiers of an existing openness, not its origin.
The Great Awakening and Enlightenment ideas are described as...
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The base was composition; these amplified it.
Anglicisation, by three routes
- The British colonies experienced a gradual Anglicization 英国化 over time, developing autonomous political communities based on English models with influence from intercolonial commercial ties, the emergence of a transatlantic print culture, and the spread of Protestant evangelicalism.
- Note the paradox in the sentence: the communities are autonomous and yet based on English models.
- Three routes are named — commerce, print, and religion — and none of them is government policy.
Select all three routes of Anglicisation the CED names.
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None of them is government policy.
Interests diverged, and mistrust grew
- The goals and interests of European leaders and colonists at times diverged, leading to a growing mistrust on both sides of the Atlantic.
- Colonists, especially in British North America, expressed dissatisfaction over issues including territorial settlements, frontier defence, self-rule, and trade.
- On both sides again — the CED insists that mistrust was mutual, not a colonial attitude toward a passive Britain.
Follow colonial society into objection
Self-government built up over a century is what made the tightening after 1763 intolerable.
Select all the issues colonists expressed dissatisfaction over.
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And the CED says mistrust grew on both sides.
Four of the five sources of resistance were supplied by Anglicisation itself. English political models, a transatlantic print culture, Protestant evangelicalism and Enlightenment thought made the colonies more English and gave colonists the standard by which they judged imperial control.
Select all the sources of colonial resistance the CED lists.
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Four of five were supplied by Anglicisation itself.
Five sources of resistance
- Colonists' resistance to imperial control drew on local experiences of self-government, evolving ideas of liberty, the political thought of the Enlightenment, greater religious independence and diversity, and an ideology critical of perceived corruption in the imperial system.
- Five sources, and four of them are things Anglicisation itself supplied — English political models, print, Protestantism, Enlightenment ideas.
- That is why 2.1's second claim holds: the bond and the objection grew from the same soil.
The colonies developed ____ political communities based on English models.
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The paradox inside the CED's own sentence.
Two objectives, one mechanism
- 2.7 asks how movement of people and ideas contributed to American culture and how differing goals affected how colonists viewed themselves and Britain.
- One mechanism answers both: shared institutions and ideas produced both a common culture and a shared standard for judging the empire.
- State that mechanism once, then illustrate it on each side.
Teach a community your law, sell it your books, and share its faith, and you have made it more like you. You have also handed it every phrase it will need when it writes down what you are doing wrong.
Different European religious and ethnic groups contributed to pluralism and intellectual exchange, later enhanced by the first Great Awakening and the spread of European Enlightenment ideas, and the British colonies experienced a gradual Anglicization... developing autonomous political communities based on English models through intercolonial commercial ties, a transatlantic print culture, and Protestant evangelicalism. Goals and interests at times diverged, leading to growing mistrust on both sides, and resistance drew on local experiences of self-government, evolving ideas of liberty, Enlightenment political thought, religious independence and diversity, and an ideology critical of perceived corruption.